Pillars of Man

By Karl Havener

Hard angles and looming figures.

The sun is blotted out by a selfish landscape.

Millions of ants work for an invisible queen,

A monarchy of greed and corruption.

They are skeletons of steel and skin of stone,

Centurions fortified in capitalism.

Like trees, these pillars of man rise to heaven,

But, like trees, their roots plunge

Twice as deep to Hell.